Sparetech.com's Mites reign in Huntington ice hockey

Published 1:00 am, Friday, December 3, 2004

The Sparetech.com Mites highlighted the performance of New Milford Youth Hockey teams last weekend during action in the Charles Huntington Memorial tournament at Canterbury School.

The Mites avenged an earlier loss to Watertown with a 6-1 victory in Sunday's championship match to capture their divisional title. The New Milford youths outscored their opponents by a cumulative 30-11 count for four matches.

The Cookhouse's Pee Wees and
Play It Again Sports
' Bantams played their way to respective runnerup finishes in an event featuring rival programs Greater New Haven, the Greenwich Blues, Southern, Mid-Fairfield, Darien, Katonah, N.Y., Wallingford, Danbury and Watertown.

The tournament was held last Friday through Sunday at Draddy Arena in memory of Charles Huntington, the longtime Canterbury School boys' coach who was among the founders of New Milford Youth Hockey during the 1970s.

Netminder Calvin Bouchard had just five stops thanks to aggressive defense by
Reid Coons
and
Mark Vetter
.

Sparetech.com 10,

Wallingford 'B' 1

Brendan Dowler
and Reid Coons exemplified a tight defense in front of goaltender Calvin Bouchard, who needed just nine saves for the victory.

New Milford's potent attack was led by Mikey Galinski's three goals and an assist, Jonathan Manzer's three goals, Patrick Hess' two goals and three assists, Chase Harwell's goal and three assists, and
MacKenzie Schopfer
's goal and assist.

Goalie Jameson Steinhardt needed just seven saves for the 'W' thanks to defense by Christian Stuart and Harrison O'Connell.

Mike Deb's Hockey Hut 'B' 3, Middlesex 'B' 2

Harrison O'Connell cashed in on assists by Christian Stuart and Brendan Dowler while
Alexander Berg
used
Zachary Guptill
's setup as the cohesive Hockey Hut sextet emerged on top Nov. 13 in Cromwell.

Jameson Steinhardt proved up the task between the pipes with 12 saves and got defensive assistance from Christian Stuart and Brendan Dowler.

Mike Deb's Hockey Hut 'B' 7, Wizards 'C' 1

Austin Wilks wore out the Wizards with four goals and Alexander Cornell, Zachary Guptill and Austin Murphy added scores to make life easy for goaltender
Riley Blais
, who stopped six of seven rival shots.

Kent 5, Mike Deb's Hockey Hut 'B' 0

The fast-skating Kent youths fired 25 shots on net to outplay hard-working goalie Riley Blais and his teammates Nov. 20 at the
Kent School
rink.

Harrison O'Connell and Christian Stuart stood tall on 'D' for New Milford.

West Haven 7, Mike Deb's Hockey Hut 'B' 1

New Milford's 'B' skaters fell for the second time that weekend despite a goal by Zachary Guptill, assisted by
Peter Mehler
, and excellent defense by Brendan Dowler and
Christian Stuart.

The well drillers bounced back Nov. 14 on the friendly ice of Draddy Arena as Griffin Lang, Connor Mitchell and
Brenden Williams
scored goals while Blake Stascavage and Alex Drabik skated with feeling on 'D.'

Kyle McCormack turned aside 14 of 15 New Haven shots.

DeGrazia Well Co. 'A' 3,

Ridgefield 'A1' 1

Connor Mitchell scored twice, the second time set up by Brenden Williams, and Blake Stascavage drilled home an unassisted goal to make goaltender Alex Drabik's 14-save performance stand up.